Digital Carrion: How AI Gave Scammers a Second Life and Why Stolen Money Stinks 🤮💸

The world has gone crazier than ever before, but this madness isn’t happening on the streets—it’s happening in our pockets, on the smartphone screens we feed on from dawn till labels. 📱 As someone for whom the internet is a workplace, a testing ground, and a place of rest, I spend my entire day online. I sit there, I observe, and more and more often, I am beyond stunned. How is it possible that in an age of almost limitless opportunities for honest earnings, so many people choose to be digital hyenas? 🐺💻

The SCAM Epidemic ⚠️

We are witnessing a true epidemic of fraud. SCAM is no longer just a fringe element of the internet, hidden in dark corners. It is everywhere: in your inbox, in the comments under success stories, in WhatsApp messages from a "son who lost his phone." 📩 Every day, I face manipulation attempts personally. Every notification is a potential minefield. 💣

I wonder about the thought process of a person who, instead of using their head to build something of value, decides to steal. Let’s be clear—scamming isn’t "clever marketing" or "attention arbitrage." It is plain, primitive theft, dressed up in the fancy robes of code and AI-generated graphics. 🤖 People prey on ignorance, on fear, on the naivety of another human being who often hands over their life savings—and then they couldn't care less. 🖕 They lack the elementary shame that used to exclude an individual from the community.

Artificial Intelligence: Accomplice or Tool? 🧠⚔️

I often say that the development of Artificial Intelligence is something wonderful. It’s a powerful tool that allows us to automate boredom and focus on creation. Unfortunately, like every coin, this one has a dark side. 🌑 For scammers, AI has become a "booster" for efficiency. 🚀

You used to recognize a scammer by their broken English and typos. Today? Large language models write perfect, credible texts in every language on earth. AI helps them build entire ecosystems of lies in minutes: from fake banking sites to bots mimicking human behavior in chats, to deepfakes that can steal the face and voice of someone you trust. 👤🎭 Thanks to AI, scammers have become "entrepreneurial" in the worst sense of the word. Their "optimization" consists of robbing their neighbor even faster and more effectively, without ever lifting their backside from a comfortable chair.

The Smell of Money 👃💰

Personally, I loathe such practices. In a world where "hustle culture" promotes profit at any cost, I still believe in the old-school morality: stolen money simply stinks. 🤢 You cannot build true success on the misfortune of others, because such capital carries a burden that will sooner or later burn the owner from the inside out. 🔥

I have immense, almost sacred respect for the man who shovels manure to earn his bread. 🚜🌾 Why? Because there is dignity in his toil. There is a clear exchange: sweat, exhaustion, and real work in return for pay. Such a man can look at himself in the mirror at night. Meanwhile, the "scam architect" who created a perfect mechanism for robbing people because he "doesn't feel like working" is a nobody to me. 🚫 You can have the latest Porsche bought with money extorted from a retiree or a manipulated teenager, but to me, you will always be just a digital beggar with no moral backbone. 🦴❌

Where Are We Heading? 🏁

If we, as a society, start turning a blind eye to a lack of ethics just because someone is "internet-savvy," then we have lost. Technology should be a lever for our intelligence, not a prosthesis for a lack of conscience. 🛡️

I spend my life online, and I see that the fight against scams isn't just a matter of better spam filters or bank security. It is, above all, a matter of education and a return to basic values. 📚 We must start saying out loud that being a "clever fraud" is not a badge of honor. It is a disgrace. It is proof of intellectual laziness and moral emptiness. 🕳️

The world needs more people who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty with honest work—whether physical or mental—and fewer of those looking for a loophole in the system to prey on others. Because at the end of the day, when we turn off the screens and are left alone with our thoughts, all that matters is whether our money was earned or simply taken. ⚖️🤝